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. 2015 May 18;25(10):R421-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.031.

Human evolution: enhancing the brain

Wolfgang Enard  1
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Human evolution: enhancing the brain

Wolfgang Enard. Curr Biol. .
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Humans have tripled their brain size since they split from the chimpanzee lineage. A new paper provides for the first time functional evidence that an enhancer contributed to this expansion by accelerating the cell cycle in neural progenitors.

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